Marvels Comics: X-Men

Deep in the bowels of a hidden government base 666 death row mutants are forced to fight their own or die. Per Colonel America’s orders Cyclops, Wolverine, Iceman, Deathbird, Mastermind and the Goblin Queen must take down Doctor Strange’s mutant stronghold in Houma, Louisiana before a bomb destroys New York City.

Done as part of the Marvels Comics series of alternate visions of popular heroes, this Mark Millar/Sean Phillips version of the X-Men is capable and clever, if perhaps a little uninspired. With more alternate versions of the X-Men running around than anyone else, it’s sometimes hard for readers to tell which reality is which.